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Friday, November 22, 2024

Why do we choose to forget?

By Tinky Ningombam Our mind works in wondrous ways. Without the mind’s ability to store our past memories, we will not be the personalities we...

Anyone care for a selfie ?

By Tinky Ningombam The Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year for 2013 is “selfie.” In what seems to be perhaps the most inevitable choice, “Selfies”...

Time to market those secret recipes

By Tinky Ningombam Winters remind me of good food back home. As the lazy mornings quietly crawl in, we lay out our mats to sun...

How safe is your password?

By Tinky Ningombam With Smartphones, ATM machines and Internet usage occupying most our day-to-day lives, we have come to realize how difficult life is becoming...

Exclusive Interview with the Author of “Megastar Kasab”

Megastar Kasab's author Salil Jose explains the ironies in Indo-Pakistan relations in an exclusive interview to Wahengbam Rorrkychand. Though it is a short novel, journalist Salil Jose’s book ‘Megastar Kasab – Hits...

A self-fulfilling prophecy

By Tinky Ningombam I bet you have friends who are self claimed oracles; People who repeat “I told you so” after every bad incident that...

The games we play

By Tinky Ningombam About 20 years back, we used to boast about how many marbles we collected or how many dresses our dolls had or...

Finding our role models

By Tinky Ningombam As children we have lived fantastical lives. We have had imaginary friends, had conversations with imaginary characters and acted like rock-stars, superheroes...

NOTA option: the thing to look forward to

By Tinky Ningombam The Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India P. Sathasivam made a historic announcement on Friday. Under the order, the...

Prone to hyperbole

By Tinky Ningombam I recently got duped by a friend (who meant well, I think) and sent me to attend an event which was supposed...

Oh captain, my captain

By Tinky Ningombam A lot of my friends celebrated their first Teacher’s Day with pride and an air of satisfied glee on finally being on...

Strange people, strange world

By: Tinky Ningombam No-one wants to be a stranger and be called one. You are as strange as the next person. Everyone in this world...

Pitch right with your CV

By: Tinky Ningombam For a fresh graduate out in the job market, making a good CV is an inevitable necessity. Jobs, scholarship applications, grants call...

A world without lies

By Tinky Ningombam Lie (verb): to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive We have often been preached by older folks: parents, family, teachers and...